The people of Homs--a city of 1 million in Syria's heartland--rose up to demand more political freedom from President Bashar al-Assad. The country's armed forces replied with live ammunition, ...

Syria’s rebels took Homs back from Assad in a matter of days. Now they have to police it - ON THE GROUND: Bel Trew meets the new police chief in Syria’s third city, tasked with keeping the ...

It was oddly tranquil up there on the roof of an obliterated commercial center in the Old City of Homs, once ground zero of Syria’s sanguinary conflict. A panorama of ruin spread in all ...

It was oddly tranquil up there on the roof of an obliterated commercial center in the Old City of Homs, once ground zero of Syria’s sanguinary conflict. A panorama of ruin spread in all ...

It was oddly tranquil up there on the roof of an obliterated commercial center in the Old City of Homs, once ground zero of Syria’s sanguinary conflict. A panorama of ruin spread in all ...

It was oddly tranquil up there on the roof of an obliterated commercial center in the Old City of Homs, once ground zero of Syria’s sanguinary conflict. A panorama of ruin spread in all ...

It was oddly tranquil up there on the roof of an obliterated commercial center in the Old City of Homs, once ground zero of Syria’s sanguinary conflict. A panorama of ruin spread in all ...

Homs, Syria’s third city, ... Here, people are mostly worried about the chaotic aftermath and ordinary citizens taking matters into their own hands.